Way Too Early 2/7/22

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

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4.5 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Mike Pence: ‘Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election.’

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0:00.0	U.S. troops land in Poland to reinforce NATO allies as the White House warns that Russia could invade Ukraine, quote, any day now.
0:10.7	The question, is diplomacy still an option?
0:14.1	Plus, pushback against the Republican National Committee after it censures two members for serving on the House committee investigating January 6th.
0:23.2	Describing the attack on the Capitol is, quote, legitimate political discourse.
0:27.6	The question is, where does this leave the Republican Party?
0:31.1	And a state that had some of the most stringent COVID mandates will no longer require masks and
0:36.8	schools.
0:37.1	The question is, will more states
0:39.5	soon follow? It's way too early for this.
0:46.5	Good morning and welcome to way too early. The show that wonders if any political discourse is legitimate at this early hour. I'm John Clemere on this Monday, February 7th. Let's start with the news. There's a lot of it. Several leading Republicans are backing former Vice President Mike Pence after he openly rebuked Donald Trump before a group of conservative
1:12.1	lawyers. Here's the former Vice President pushing back at Trump's claim that Pence could have
1:17.1	overturned the 2020 election. This week that President Trump said I had the right to
1:24.6	overturn the election. But President Trump is wrong. I had no right
1:31.9	to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people
1:37.8	alone. And frankly, there is no idea more on American than the notion than any one person
1:44.0	could choose the American president.
1:47.0	The truth is there's more at stake than our party or political fortunes.
1:54.0	Men and women, if we lose faith in the Constitution, we won't just lose elections. We'll lose our country.
2:08.1	The former vice president said his decision to certify the election on January 6th is rooted in Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution. Asserting elections are run at the state
2:13.8	level and the only role of Congress is to open and count the votes that were
2:18.0	certified by the states. Republican Senator Marco Rubio said Pence is right. Republican Senator
2:24.0	John Barrasso said the former VP did his constitutional duty that day. Here's one of Donald
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